FTM Sources Question

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FTM Sources Question

Legg inn av Kenneth » 21 okt 2004 21:12:28

Just curious for those FTM users out there... how do you use the sources
dialog?

Master Sources
- Do you have one master source for each record you use or one master
source for each type of record you use?
Example, a newspaper called Alexandria Daily Town Talk, do you:
1 - have a master source for Issue. 45 and Issue. 92
2 - have a master source for Alexandria Daily Town Talk and denote
Issue 45 and Issue 92 in the regular source notation?

Another example, for birth certificates, do you
1 - have a master source for "Birth Certificate, Individual A" and
"Birth Certificate, Individual B" or
2 - have a master source for "Birth Certificate" and regular source
citations for "Individual A" and "Individual B"

For the sake of keeping organized, it would make MUCH more sense to do
it the 1st way, but since the citation option is there, I was curious as
to how many people did it the 2nd way. I think my own justification is
that the Master Sources provides a single place where you can view your
sources, whereas the citations can get scattered. I might forget that I
used a reference all together if it gets lost in the citation of one
individual.

Furthermore, it makes much more sense, filesize-wise, to use just Master
Source if you have images of the original source. Uploading images to
citations means that otherwise large graphics files can get lost in the
bowels of FTM, becoming difficult to manage (especially if one article
out of a newspaper references more than one fact that you're applying it
to). The same problem occurs with the Scrapbook. Images can get lost
in individuals, and if you want an image to apply to multiple
individuals, you have to have multiple instances of it.

Ideally, FTM would include a Sources Index and Media Index so that you
could see what graphics files were uploaded and be able to more easily
manage them and apply one source/source image/scrapbook image to
multiple individuals.

However, the citation feature obviously exists and is implemented for a
reason. I'm just looking to see why it's there and if I would be
violating some sort of "sourcing standard" by not using them. I
wouldn't want my research to be unacceptable by other genealogists.

Thanks in advance,
Kenneth

KD

Re: FTM Sources Question

Legg inn av KD » 21 okt 2004 23:33:22

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:12:28 -0500, Kenneth <kennethNOSPAM@pardue.com>
wrote:

Just curious for those FTM users out there... how do you use the sources
dialog?

Master Sources
- Do you have one master source for each record you use or one master
source for each type of record you use?
Example, a newspaper called Alexandria Daily Town Talk, do you:
1 - have a master source for Issue. 45 and Issue. 92
2 - have a master source for Alexandria Daily Town Talk and denote
Issue 45 and Issue 92 in the regular source notation?

Another example, for birth certificates, do you
1 - have a master source for "Birth Certificate, Individual A" and
"Birth Certificate, Individual B" or
2 - have a master source for "Birth Certificate" and regular source
citations for "Individual A" and "Individual B"

I'm currently doing it the 1st way, i.e. my census soruces read: 1900
US Census, Polk CO, CO then in the citation, I list the Series, Roll
and Page of the census.

Ideally, FTM would include a Sources Index and Media Index so that you
could see what graphics files were uploaded and be able to more easily
manage them and apply one source/source image/scrapbook image to
multiple individuals.

That would be very helpfull! I've found that media does indeed get
"lost' in the bowells of FTM, particularly since I find time every 3
to 6 month to spend with genealogy! :/

Ken

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